Trust

How Citizens View Political Institutions

Dr Ben Seyd (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-889644-9 (ISBN)

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We seem to be living in an age of citizen distrust of social and political elites. Distrust is also seen to have numerous negative consequences for our civic and democratic life. Yet are western democracies really facing a crisis of trust?

This book provides an extensive and up-to-date review of one of the most important topics in contemporary political life. It explores the nature and condition of trust today by exploring three key issues. What do we mean by trust? How far are levels of trust in decline? How damaging are the consequences of low trust for effective democratic governance? Seyd also considers how trust arises, and which factors might explain the declines in trust witnessed recently in many countries. Providing evidence from many countries, Trust: How Citizens View Political Institutions pays particular attention to Britain, which has seen a marked decline in public regard for political elites, making the country a vital case for identifying the causes and effects of low trust. Combining conceptual and empirical analysis, the book provides a timely analysis of a central issue in contemporary political debate.

Dr Ben Seyd is in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. His primary fields of interest and expertise are public opinion and political behaviour. His previous research has focused on political participation, electoral behaviour, public attitudes towards state actors and institutions, and citizen evaluations of democratic processes. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Trust Research and a convenor of the UK Political Studies Association's Political Psychology group.

Section One: What are we talking about? The nature and measurement of trust
1: What is trust?
2: Why focus on trust?
3: Measuring trust
Section Two: What is going on? Levels and causes of trust
4: Is there a problem of trust?
5: Why has trust declined?
6: Why do citizens trust (or not)?
Section Three: So what? The consequences of trust
7: The effects of trust
8: Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-889644-1 / 0198896441
ISBN-13	978-0-19-889644-9 / 9780198896449
Zustand	Neuware